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Meanwhile, the court is also considering a separate appeal from the same case where the ACLU argues Kobach's position violates the constitutional rights of transgender people.

Opponents included several civil rights groups and civic organizations like the American Civil Liberties Union, the League of Women Voters and the Disability Rights Center.

The American Civil Liberties Union estimates that ICE is considering an expansion of immigrant detention space across at least eight states, in locations ranging from Leavenworth, Kansas, to the outskirts of major immigrant populations in New York City and San Francisco

The ACLU in December announced that documents it had obtained revealed that Immigration and Customs Enforcement was "actively considering proposals to expand its immigration detention capacity in Kansas."

The American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas expressed concerns over data privacy, pandering to conspiracy theories of illegal voting and inadequate appeals processes.

An immigration detention facility in Leavenworth, Kansas, was shut down by the federal government in 2021. Four years later, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) discovered that the facility could potentially reopen.

'It's important for the American public to know exactly what Immigration and Customs Enforcement is planning to do,' ACLU lawyer says.

The American Civil Liberties Union, or ACLU, is intervening in two capital murder cases underway in Wyandotte County, challenging the constitutionality of the death penalty as a form of punishment.

A long-shot constitutional challenge to Kansas’ death penalty unfolding in preliminary court proceedings for a man charged in the death of four people at a Wyandotte County bar centers on claims the state’s process of jury selection is racially biased in favor of executions.